International Symposium on

Surface Hardening of Corrosion Resistant AlloysMay 25-26, 2010 • Case Western Reserve University • Cleveland, Ohio USA

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMTuesday, May 25

8:45 a.m. Symposium Keynote: Low-Temperature Gaseous Surface Hardening of Stainless Steel: The Current Status Marcel A.J. Somers, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

9:30 a.m. The Influence of Plasma and Gas Process Parameters on a Microstructure of Low Temperature Nitrided Austenitic Stainless Steel Jolanta Baranowska, Institute of Materials Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

10:10 a.m. • Break

10:40 a.m. Carbide Formation During Low-Temperature Carburization Gary M. Michal, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

11:20 a.m. Fundamental Aspects of Structure, Development and Stability of Expanded Austenite Thomas L. Christiansen, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Noon • Lunch, Poster Session and Tabletop Displays

2:20 p.m. Interstitial Hardening: Corrosion Resistance through Enhanced Dissolution Farrel J. Martin, Center for Corrosion Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA

3:00 p.m. Increasing Tribological Properties of Stainless Steels by Low Temperature Surface Hardening André Paulo Tschiptschin, Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

3:40 p.m. • Break

4:50 p.m. CWRU Lab Tours

6:30 p.m. Symposium Dinner and Reception: Cleveland Museum of Art Special Presentation: Esthetics and Metallurgy of the Japanese Sword Professor Emeritus Michael Notis, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA USA

Wednesday, May 26

8:45 a.m. Interstitial Hardening of Ni-base and Co-base Alloys Arthur H. Heuer, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

9:30 a.m. Innovations in Plasma Assisted Diffusion of Nitrogen and Carbon in Austenitic Stainless Steels and Related Alloys Thierry Czerwiec, Institut Jean Lamour (IJL), Ecoles des Mines de Nancy, France

10:10 a.m. • Break

10:40 a.m. Some New Observations on S-Phase Surface Engineering of Fe-Cr, Co-Cr and Ni-Cr Corrosion Resistant Alloys Hanshan Dong, The University of Birmingham, UK

11:20 a.m. Fundamental Issues in the Simulation of Carburizing, Carbonitriding and Ferritic Nitriding of Low Alloy Steels Richard D. Sisson, Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Noon • Lunch, Poster Session and Tabletop Displays

2:20 p.m. The Trend in Surface Hardening of Corrosion Resistant Alloys in Japan Kiyoshi Funatani, IMST Institute (Consultant), Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

3:40 p.m. • Break

4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion

5:00 p.m. Adjourn

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